Two Christian men face each other across hundreds of court documents and news stories.

Harold “Wayne” Nichols, sentenced to death in 1990 for the rape and murder of 21-year-old Karen Pulley, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday, Dec. 11, as Tennessee’s third execution in seven months. His clemency petition rests with Gov. Bill Lee, the devout Franklin businessman who has helped restart Tennessee’s death penalty despite documented death penalty protocol violations at TDOC, Tennessee’s botched 2022 scheduled execution of Oscar Smith and court battles that continue today.

Nichols, 13 months Lee’s junior, has spent more life on death row than not. He has appealed throughout that time to slow or stop his execution or convert his sentence to life in prison. In that

See Full Page